How We Know Us

Tag: analysis

  • Iranian Government Social Network Analysis

    In honor of the Iranian election, here’s the 2001 social network analysis of the Iranian government by Renfro and Deckro.

  • Statistics::SocialNetworks Perl mod is live!

    Statistics::SocialNetworks has just been uploaded to CPAN, and as it percolates through the system I put forward the question, “What are we going to do with it?” My goal in getting a module into CPAN is easy access, and a starting point to where we can decide what tools we want, and not have to…

  • Election Influence by 527’s: Browsable Map

    I wanted to put out what’s been done so far on making yesterday’s post more interactive. There’s an awful lot that could be better about this map. Particularly legibility of labels in the core (it’s just too dense). If you want to see names, I suggest looking at the edges of the map. Michael Bommarito…

  • Influencing Elections: Network of Expenditures by 527s

    OpenSecrets.org is offering free access to their collected data about political contributions, and in that vein, I’ve created a network of expenditures by 527’s*.  I am looking for a way to make this more detailed for your ease of exploration, so please stay tuned. *Groups whose primary purpose is to influence elections are exempt from…

  • Network Analysis Application to Game Theory (with Software)

    When will network analysis provide additional insight into game theory? In a word: inequality. There must be some form of quantifiable inequality in the game: access, strength of relationships, goals, etc.  This difference creates opportunities for the individual players to use information (or resource) asymmetries and broker to their benefit. On the left all of…

  • Graphing Wall Street with LittleSis.org

    With a goal of transparency, LittleSis.Org has started collecting peer-membership information for public figures of many sorts.  Just the stuff made for social graphs! This is image represents the social networks of the CEOs of the American Wall Street companies, from the info at LittleSis.  Red nodes are the CEOs (Thain is included), and green…

  • Complete(?) Kiva Network

    I wanted to offer up an image of the complete(?) network after all of the kind interest in the preliminary network map I put together yesterday. From the feedback yesterday, I learned my lesson and have linked to a high-res version of the image.

  • Kiva Micro-Lending Offers API

    Incredibly great idea Kiva.org, the distributed micro-lending organization, has recently released a freely available API for accessing their data. I have just started poking at the data available, as I suspect network analysis will be able to help predict rates of return. Good on ‘ya Kiva! Update: hi-res image by request from smoovej

  • Demographics Fail

    We forget, now that our reach is wide, that all purchasing is done by individuals.  Since we don’t know the individuals, and locating and selling to each and every one of them (us) is too expensive, we developed marketing to help us select the people, the individuals, most likely to purchase whatever we are selling. …

  • Random Graph Generation in Perl

    If you ever find yourself needing to generate random graphs in Perl (quite the ice breaker, I can tell you), I recommend checking out Matt Spear’s Graph::Maker, which has generators for everything from Erdos-Renyi and Watts-Strogatz to Lollipop graphs. The only downside is the use of Graph which is s-l-o-w for graphs of even moderate…